TV actress Soleil Moon Frye

Events in 1976 and 6-8

Events in US in the birth year of Soleil Moon Frye

• US Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority (March 24).
• Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act (May 11).
• US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment (July 3).
• Nation celebrates Bicentennial (July 4).
• Mysterious disease strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia, eventually claiming 29 lives (Aug. 4).
• Jimmy Carter elected US President (Nov. 2).

Birthday Soleil Moon Frye (6-8) in history

• Day 6-8 year 1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
• Day 6-8 year 1825: Bolivia declared its independence from Peru.
• Day 6-8 year 1926: Gertrude Ederle became the first U.S. woman to swim across the English Channel.
• Day 6-8 year 1945: The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
• Day 6-8 year 1962: Jamaica gained its independence within the Britain Commonwealth.
• Day 6-8 year 1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the poll taxes and literacy tests that had restricted black voter registration in the South.
• Day 6-8 year 1997: British prime minister Tony Blair and Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams meet—the first time in 76 years that a British leader and an IRA ally meet.
• Day 6-8 year 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
• Day 6-8 year 2012: Curiosity, a SUV-size rover, successfully landed on Mars. The rover's research has been planned for the next two years, but since Curiosity's electricity is powered by plutonium, it could be operational and provide insight into Mars for decades to come